al gore did not talk about the environment when he was running for president, and these guys did not talk -- >> when he was running in 1988 he talked about it. >> when you have the mitt romney as governor running against this obama, their positions would not have been different mitt romney ndorser of cap- and-trade. >> there is a huge disconnect, because the political culture is still full of deniers and politicians reflect that. unbelievable to go through three talktes and not about climate change at all. >> there has been a lot of advertising by interest groups to put forth the idea of fossil fuels and negate the idea of climate mornings, and tha hasn't -- negate the idea of a climate warming, and that has had an effect. >> in september, one of nasa's's satellites went dark, essentially did they had a back up a satellite, and that would tell us that the big storm was coming. they're not spending money. they are cutting back on this kind of stuff if we don't have those satellites -- >> while we have not been paying attention, the way we spend our money, state, local, and federal has